Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bb29ae30f271f1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:13:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 20fcb564212be1697f562c9c3d5ca29d SHA-1: eec813c04fb01f23613b75e41741af7b0b52d78c SHA-256: 2bb29ae30f271f1cd842898f71be5a3a694c7fbfba4df1af264fd204175ec7a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting, with multiple URLs pointing to PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'utm_term=free download uc browser apps for android' in one URL further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://platcometals.com/images/file/wafapopofovumidinazar.pdf
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/mefaxafomufalagosupagape.pdf
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/58564323107.pdf
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/66482790327.pdf
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/pezudeduvajiporot.pdf
    • http://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasakulasobiri.pdf
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/23352383191.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a9c3e1081---3611397883.pdf
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/42619420175.pdf
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/84584223816.pdf
    • http://lanaecoloridabruzzo.it/userfiles/file/dudutobowajitozudoz.pdf
    • https://silverbirdmarketing.com/pages/images/file/voweponafivosani.pdf
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/veboruzotusamugigokeka.pdf
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/78775078141.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f63d226f5---woxedutebu.pdf
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/zevezususinepi.pdf
    • https://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/43126573731.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1ee040888---25103470035.pdf
    • http://baltyk.recykling-rejs.pl/imgturysta/files/3532571855.pdf
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/11476499295.pdf
    • https://mmeasar.com/mmeasarfiles/file/kipowidupebo.pdf
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///57372073938.pdf
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/tufigumisilijesi.pdf
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/74448896539.pdf
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/97033611943.pdf
    • http://hcwan.com/userfiles/file/golezada.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+uc+browser+apps+for+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d755.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD755 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef67.bin
27b414989812534a74f1a5dc031ce3f6659b38e977b8468db304c131d8dcbbe7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF67 17284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b3b.bin
f879c2b840ef14a7bb0ffdefdbe1c744ef0b7820ca802e9eac654d19850d8e8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3B 10820 bytes